Oh, the Humanities: Can You Guess the Most-Regretted College Majors?
Dean Jerome Lynch says that there’s a lot of business for our graduates. There’s a lot of opportunity out there.
Media Hits
Are EVs Making the ‘Forever Chemicals’ Crisis Even Worse?
Lee Ferguson and collaborators from Texas Tech find that lithium ion battery production and disposal is a major contributor to a type of PFAS contamination in the environment
Why Your Phone Weather App Probably Won’t Tell You if You’re Stranded on a Heat Island
Mike Bergin and David Carlson show a method for statistically compensating for a lack of heat data in underserved urban areas
The Wrong Side of Forever
Lee Ferguson talks about his work to find PFAS chemicals in the environment across the countries and trace their sources
The Science Is Clear: Offshore Wind Isn’t What’s Killing Whales
Doug Nowacek says there are no links whatsoever between the offshore wind development activity and especially the humpback whale mortalities.
Climate Engineering Carries Serious National Security Risks and the World Needs to Be Prepared
Tyler Felgenhauer joins Indiana University colleague Ben Kravitz in penning an article on the potential promise and perils of climate engineering projects
NC Scientists Receive Tools for Tracking New Compounds
Lee Ferguson says investments by the North Carolina General Assembly puts NC researchers in an improved spot to better their statewide PFAS investigations.
The Complicated Truths About Offshore Wind and Right Whales
Doug Nowacek speaks to how noise from offshore windfarm construction might disrupt the lives of endangered right whales.
Social Media and Search Engines Can Now Forecast Disease Outbreaks
CEE Professor Gaby Katul warns that we can not afford to wait another 100 years for the next pandemic to occur in an article that explores the ways that internet data is being used to track and predict disease spread.
Popular Herbicide Ingredient Linked to Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic in Sri Lanka
CEE Professor Lee Ferguson has discovered that the active ingredient in Roundup, the world’s most popular herbicide, may play a role in the epidemic levels of chronic kidney disease seen in rural Sri Lanka.
New Social Science Perspectives on Solar Geoengineering
Tyler Felgenhauer talks about different technologies that can facilitate solar geoengineering, the risks and benefits of these technologies, how international cooperation could affect the deployment of solar geoengineering, and recent social science research on solar geoengineering.
ARHS Hopes to ID Links Between Als, Algal Blooms
CEE Research Professor Lisa Satterwhite is working on a project with Albemarle Regional Health Services to investigate potential links between toxic blue-green algal blooms and threats to public health, in particular Lou Gehrig’s Disease.